"It's... warning me!"
Seemingly unable to accept this outcome, Bibi Dong hid in the altar's shadows, her face dark. Her brows knitted tightly, while towering fury churned deep within her.
After a long while, Bibi Dong forcibly suppressed the savagery in her heart and slowly withdrew all her Rakshasa Divine Power. Deathly silence returned to the altar, leaving only her cold, low murmurs, laden with apprehension and resentment.
"These Laws transcend the limits of the Douluo Continent... Is destroying the Soul Spirits' essence and dismantling the Symbiosis Method at its root truly a fool's dream...?"
The scarlet faded from Bibi Dong's eyes, leaving them cold and unfathomable once more. "If I can't find a loophole now, I'll slowly infiltrate it over time. Sooner or later, I'll find one."
She looked at the Soul Spirit still trembling in her hand. "The Laws can protect you for a time, but not forever! I have all the patience in the world..."
The weak hundred-year Soul Spirit was still trembling faintly.
The terrifying pressure of the Rakshasa Divine Power that had filled the air moments before had made it shudder instinctively... Its spectral form flickered ceaselessly, as though it would dissolve the next second.
Yet the strangest thing remained unchanged.
Beneath that overwhelming terror, its eyes held not only fear, but also a trace of dependence.
It was so afraid of the baleful aura surrounding Bibi Dong, yet it instinctively felt close to this woman and depended on her!
That contradiction, that strangeness, made Bibi Dong's heart tremble faintly for some inexplicable reason.
"A Soul Beast like this... I think I once kept one. What was its name again?"
As she spoke, an image flashed through her mind.
In that image, she felt the same dependence from a living creature. Once... there had also